Oculus CEO says selling to Facebook convinced big developers to build for it

Yes, a big corporation with big pockets means more money and stability but it comes at a cost. The cost being whatever you do must at the end of the day feed back into the pockets of your parent company. Twitter used to be a platform too but how many third party applications do you see now? A lot less than what it used to be. What do you think will happen to Oculus applications? Those that are sanctioned by Facebook will thrive and those that aren&#x27;t will be brutally shut down.<p>At the end of the day this isn&#x27;t good or bad. It is really more about long term disruptive technology and its viability outside giant dens like Facebook and Google. Looking around I don&#x27;t see an ecosystem that can support such things without giant corporate backers and that is definitely not a good thing because at the end of the day the values of our corporate overlords tend to be slightly misaligned with that of the individual.

I mean, I hope things go well for them and their partnership brings nothing but good things. From what I&#x27;ve seen, they&#x27;ve put a lot of work in to their device and made significant gains.<p>But Facebook doesn&#x27;t and won&#x27;t have a device in my life, and I refuse to buy an Occulus product because I don&#x27;t believe that Facebook won&#x27;t get access to usage data (or be involved as a platform middleman).

So IMO that interviewer was terrible. Iribe gave mostly good answers despite the questions - but did anyone actually think that FB was going to put their messenger in the oculus?<p>It is also telling to me that when they talked about the emotions that you could evoke with VR vs a 2D screen that most of them were negative.<p>We have a couple of the DK1&#x27;s and we really had a lot of hope for the tech - but I remain unconvinced that this acquisition will be a good thing in the long run. I also didn&#x27;t like how he talked about the kickstarter campaign being the first to prove that the crowdfunding model could be used to create a billion dollar company - I believe if you went back and asked most of the initial investors in the kickstarter I don&#x27;t think that was something they were hoping for.

So he prefers rapid growth, with the risk of the whole thing becomming a bubble instead of the stability that results from a slow build of users and developer support? That doesn&#x27;t put a lot of confidence in me either.

I was one of the people disappointed with the acquisition.. but to be honest as long as they put out a decent bit of kit and I actually get to experience VR the way they&#x27;re demoing it I&#x27;ll be one happy dude

FFS Selling to Valve would have convinced developers to build for it too.

Was there ever any indication that big developers were holding fire? As far as I&#x27;m aware, there wasn&#x27;t time to even know how the market and developer support was shaking out.

I like how the only way to comment on this article is by your Facebook account.<p>Now, reporters will look at the comments by FB predisposed people and assume there is now acceptance.

Off topic, but the scroll down to be slammed into a full screen slide show is quite disorienting.

Not me.<p>Oh, right, but I&#x27;m just a small developer.

I am surprised nobody has pointed out the typo in the title

...or however you spell it.

A blazer over a hoodie over a dress shirt?<p>Apparently I don&#x27;t have enough money to pull that off.

No sign of remorse. Screw the community that took him there. Get Facebook&#x27;s billions under the excuse to get major game studios behind the platform. Huge blow to future crowdfunding. Lovely guy.

I thought this was going to be a story about Zuck being totally wasted, doing lines of blow, and then suddenly shouting to Occulus: &quot;I&#x27;ll buy it for $2B!&quot;<p>That would have made it make more sense at least.